Allen was like a prophet of the 1960s. |
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. |
and they're trying to open cans of food with a screw driver. |
But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit. |
Coalition for Police Accountability. |
Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. |
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment -- a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician. |
He was a reflection of what was going on. The poem 'Howl' was a howl against the hypocrisy and silence of the generations of the 1950s -- of the people who failed to perform their function as real elders. |
I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A. |
I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans. |
I have officially endorsed no one, ... I feel it's too soon. |
I put in work for my neighborhood. Hundreds of bills, measures, budget items, and hearings. I always tried to make it a point to stay late, to always run the longest hearings, to carry nearly the most bills. The tragedy was that of the 18 years I was in Sacramento, 16 years were under Republican governors. |
I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission. |
I was for Gore. I thought that Gore and the Democrats were pretty clueless as to what Nader and the Greens represented, and they acted like bullies. |
I wish that I'd been in Congress at some point. Especially now with Bush there. But I would have a really hard time getting elected because of my views. L.A. is very ethnic. Many of the Jewish voters would not support me because of my views on the Middle East. |